Cards To Watch This Weekend – Lightning Vortex And Last Day Of Witch

July 13th, 2013

Don’t believe the hype – there’s a lot more to the Dragon Rulers versus Prophecy matchup than some might suspect, and the past two weeks has seen a flurry of single card innovations. Those individual choices will make or break hundreds of efforts at the Championship title this weekend, so today we want to take some time to show you the hottest, most debated cards on the tournament floor. As you read the Feature Match coverage this weekend, watch out for these promising tech choices, and try to consider what they could mean for your tournaments moving forward.

So what’s a Dragon Ruler Duelist to do? Jowgen and Kycoo make typical plays extremely difficult for the Dragon Ruler player, keeping them from making the Special Summons they rely on. Blaster, Dragon Ruler of Infernos can take out a single threat quite efficiently, but getting to Blaster isn’t always possible. As a result, we’re seeing Dark Hole making its way back onto Main Deck lists. We’re also seeing mained and sided play of Lightning Vortex, and competitors are even delving into the Dueling years gone by to Side Deck Last Day of Witch. Vortex may be an important card this weekend: since a Dragon Ruler player can discard a Dragon Rulers for Vortex’s cost, then use that Dragon Ruler from the Graveyard, the activation cost of Vortex is much easier to pay for in this strategy than in others.